About Geneva Global:

Geneva Global is an international consulting company that provides strategic advice, independent research, active program and grant management, as well as impact measurement to individuals, foundations, companies, and other organizations.

Geneva Global has 16 years of experience working in various countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. On behalf of clients, we’ve managed over US $120 million in grants, improving the lives of over 38 million people in the region. We’ve partnered with over 650 local organizations across 14 sectors, including community health, anti-human trafficking, literacy, infant and maternal health, disaster relief, water and sanitation, and education.

Geneva Global Ethiopia is seeking a proactive, experienced professional to serve as a Program Coordinator in the UNICEF funded Geneva Global’s Speed School program in Ethiopia. This person’s primary functions will be to provide program management and technical assistance to implementing partners (IPs) in Ethiopia.  Applicants should be familiar with Ethiopia’s education system and have experience with education programs in Ethiopia as well as fluent communication skills in Afan Oromo, Amharic and English languages.  Knowledge and experience on other disciplines such as monitoring, data management, and economic empowerment are desirable.

Job Summary

The Program Coordinator as a member of a multidisciplinary team, conducts a systematic process of inquiry to search, analyze, summarize and present relevant written information in the course of implementing the Speed School/SPEED SCHOOL program to displaced Ethiopian children resulting in outputs that meet or exceed the Geneva Global’s standards. The incumbent Program Coordinator is expected to lead UNICEF funded Speed School program to children who are locally displaced and kept out of school for few years.  The Program Coordinator is responsible specifically for planning, reviewing proposals of IPs, coordinating IPs, conducting due diligence process to identify reliable partners, planning and implementing capacity building trainings for front line staffs of IPs, monitor and evaluate the Speed School/SPEED SCHOOL project implementation in the Oromia region. Besides, the Program Coordinator is expected to collect data and reports from IPs, compile, analyze and send to the M&E specialist timely.  The Program Coordinator participates in assessments and research works pertaining to the Speed School/SPEED SCHOOL program and liaisons Geneva Global to other stakeholders in the Oromia region.  She/he supports the organization’s vision, mission and values and assists in training as needed.

Major Responsibilities/ Essential Functions

Program Coordination:

• Provide coordination and technical support for the implementation of the Speed School program.
• Prepare and Provide annual and interim reports about the progress of the SPEED SCHOOL program to the Deputy Country Director.
• Represent GGI-E in the portfolio/geographic locations to be assigned.
• Facilitate and coordinate the recruitment and assignment of project staff.
• Organize and provide training for training officers, community mobilizers and facilitators of IPs;
• Facilitate the provisions of the necessary resources (financial and material) to implementing partners.
• Promote the participation of communities and local government bodies in the implementation of the SPEED SCHOOL program.
• Collaborate with other program staff of Geneva Global to ensure the realization of overall program objectives;
• Regular visits and discussions with line government offices under her/his portfolio in regard to the program.
• Gather feedback through formal and informal discussions about the program from implementing partners and line government offices.

 Program Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Contacting implementers to set expectations and gather information including description of the need, program, desired results, financials, and organizational profile
• Visit project sites of the respective IPs at least Three times per academic year.
• Check the delivery of the program in line with SPEED SCHOOL Quality Standards and agreed benchmarks.
• Identify performance gap and render on-site consultation and professional assistance.
• Spot check on the financial, material and human resource utilization of the IPs.
• Prepare quarterly, semi-annual, and annual programmatic reports using GG reporting templates and submit to the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist.
• Compile the data of implementing partners under her/his portfolio;
• Organize, compile and consolidate the documents sent by IPs and government organizations.
• Analyse the academic performance of SPEED SCHOOL students at each phase and share to M&E Specialist and the respective IP.
• Contact the IPs regularly through telephone, e-mail and if necessary, visiting in person;
• Every week update the country director and the team about the status of projects and IPs and discuss progress;
• Uploads quarterly and annual reports to GG data base system

Program Planning and Development

• Participate in the selection of new IPs, searching by referrals or bidders conference.
• Prepare landscape reports for potential IPs and areas for the implementation of SPEED SCHOOL program.
• Compile due diligence for new IPs by assisting in their application, analyzing the 7C worksheet, score sheet and log frame.
• Provide orientation for new IPs about Geneva Global standards and SPEED SCHOOL program.
• Arrange training for IPs’ staff who directly involved in the implementation of the SPEED SCHOOL program.
• Arrange continuous improvement training for SPEED SCHOOL program facilitators (Training Officers & Supervisors.)
• Participate in the design improvement process.
• Develop approaches and integrate into SPEED SCHOOL program delivery system.
• Collect and consolidate the good lessons learned from sites and integrate into the whole program.
• Proactively identify obstacles to effective performance.
• Assist in developing concept papers for new areas and grant proposals.

Requirements of the Program Coordinator

Geneva Global Ethiopia is seeking a proactive, experienced professional who has a minimum of 5 years’ experience in program coordination (experience in Education in Emergency is advantageous), monitoring and evaluation of education projects and will be able to work in small team environments involving significant collaboration and extensive interaction with clients and other stakeholders.

Minimal Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Education, or in Sociology, Project Management, Development or other relevant fields of academic background;
• At least 4 years of experience in teaching and/or relevant education projects;
• Experience in working with NGOs (highly desirable) in the field of education, with emphasis on primary and non-formal education, monitoring and evaluation;
• Experience in emergency affected community’s education and development programs;
• Experience in quantitative and/or qualitative data collection methodologies, and relating software packages;
• Experience in managing self-help women groups/ women empowerment programs is advantages;
• Proven ability to develop user-friendly technical documents in English and produce high-quality briefs and reports in English
• Proficiency in oral and written communication in Afan Oromo and Amharic languages
• Proficiency in Afar and/or Somali languages is advantageous;
• Ability to travel within Ethiopia to different regions.

Skills

• Proficient in using MS Office projects (especially Windows Word and Excel) and conducting internet research is required;
• Experience in program design and management including budgeting.
• Familiarity with data quality assessment (DQA) exercises and designing improvement plans.
• Ability to design M&E tools, surveys, surveillance systems, and evaluations
• Demonstrated ability to train and build capacity of others
• Strong interpersonal, communication, problem-solving, organizational and team-work skills